Wealth Quotes - Page 16

• We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

  Francis Chan

  Addiction, Comfort, Numb

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.335, David C Cook

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• When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

  Jacque Fresco

  Collapse, Bases

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• Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Offering, Generosity

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• A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

  Dalai Lama

  Contentment, Relation, Physical Health

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Pride, Watches, Shapes

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

  Umar

  Teacher, Action, Worship

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

  Dan Miller

  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

  Leland Stanford

  Science, Political, Firsts

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Names, Giving

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.1

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• The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Kindness, Vegetables

  Thomas Jefferson, Julian Parks Boyd, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “Papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love Is, Men, Sri Lanka

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.775, Aum Publications

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

  Carlos Slim

  People, World, Care

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• For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Power, Politics

  "The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke".

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• Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Happiness, Spiritual, Comfort

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• The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

  Mel White

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Support

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Goal, Doe, Lifestyle

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• Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Mean, Men

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Integrity, Men, Our Love

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• These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Spiritual, Past, Soul

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• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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